From: Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T08:45:52+09:00
Subject: Re: mysql-ruby installation - extconf.rb:33: uninitialized constant CPP (NameError)

Hi,

> What's wrong with my attempts to let MySQL and Ruby happily communicate?

There is a known issue with the latest version of MySQL, because they
changed something in the client that broke many libraries that before
one of the latest versions of the 4.1x series used to work fine.

Basically, I made some changes to the MySQL server which would allow
the old connection type to occur, but I would rather wait for someone
with the right instructions.

You need to append a line to your my.ini that reads like
'old-password' or something like that. Then you need to restart the
MySQL server and then create a new login and password which you will
use to connect to it. That's how I solved it, at least. Anyone with a
saving link? :-)

Cheers,
Joao